Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] a suggestion

[<dan...@ie...>]

> Igor Bray wrote:
>
> [CC'ing this to -beta, because this is not a bug but a feature proposal=
.]
>
>> modifying the graphics.c file in the way that is listed below. I had
>> hoped that the latest version of gnuplot would give me the required
>> capacity, but I don't believe it does.
>
> Unfortunately, the patch, as attached, is quite unusable --- version
> 3.7.1 is 3 release versions, or 7 years out of date; and the patch
> itself is backwards.
>
> To first approximation, I agree with the reasoning of that patch:
> 'set key spacing <sp>' really should affect the line spacing of the key
> title, too.
>
> Could you please try to re-do this patch, based on the current CVS
> sources, and post it to the patches tracker?

I've written a key patch for enhanced placement that I think is fairly
clean and "decruftifies" the layout a little bit.  Before writing a
conflicting patch, please try that patch and see if we can build off of
it.

Dan